Furniture

The strategy: See the previous slide on electronics. For an extra edge, look for small defects that don’t really bother you but that might fluster a floor manager or two. In this housing market, they may be happy just to keep their inventory moving, even at a lower price. To wit: Annual revenue at Furniture Brands, maker of the Broyhill, Lane and Thomasville lines, is projected to drop for a fifth straight year, to $1.15 billion, in 2011, according to the average of analysts’ estimates compiled by Bloomberg.Potential savings: 20%